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Life of Cicero

CHAPTER VIII
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The ninth was again spoken to the people, on the day on which the Allobroges gave their evidence.

Then, again, the tenth was addressed to the Senate on the fifth of December"-- also respecting Catiline.

"There are also two short supplementary speeches on the Agrarian war.

You shall have the whole body of them.

As what I write and what I do are equally interesting to you, you will gather from the same documents all my doings and all my sayings." It is not to be supposed that in this list are contained all the speeches which he made in his consular year, but those only which he made as Consul--those to which he was desirous of adding something of the dignity of statesmanship, something beyond the weight attached to his pleadings as a lawyer.


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